The sea / John Banville.
Record details
- ISBN: 0307263118
- ISBN: 9780307263117 (hc ; alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781400097029
- ISBN: 1400097029
- Physical Description: 195 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
- Distributor: New York : Random House
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The narrator is Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who, soon after his wife's death, has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child -- a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without her. But it is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well -- heeled vacationing family with whom he experienced the strange suddeness of both love and death for the first time. The seductive mother; the imperious father; the twins -- Chloe, fiery and forthright, and Myles, silent and expressionless -- in whose mysterious connection Max became profoundly entangled, each of them a part of the "barely bearable raw immediacy" of his childhood memories. |
Summary, etc.: | Following the death of his wife, Max Morden retreats to the seaside town of his childhood summers, where his own life becomes inextricably entwined with the members of the vacationing Grace family. |
Awards Note: | Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2005 |
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Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
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- 40 of 42 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rockville Public Library. (Show preferred library)
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- 1 current hold with 42 total copies.
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Douglas Library - North Canaan | F BAN (Text) | 33490000090906 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Douglas Library of Hebron | FIC BAN (Text) | 33400000637119 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Easton Public Library | FIC BANVILLE, JOHN (Text) | 37777004008223 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC BANVILLE,J (Text) | 34026103165440 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | FIC BAN (Text) | 34055103589226 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | F BANVILLE (Text) | 31953001583759 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hotchkiss Library - Sharon | Fic Ban (Text) | 33660104999174 | Upper Level Fiction | Available | - |
Howard Whittemore Library - Naugatuck | FIC BANVILLE, JOHN (Text) | 34027101067893 | Storage | Available | - |
Howard Whittemore Library - Naugatuck | FIC BANVILLE, JOHN (Text) | 34027140724702 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon | FIC BAN (Text) | 33430000203612 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Summary
The Sea
The author of The Untouchable ("contemporary fiction gets no better than this"--Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review ) now gives us a luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory. The narrator is Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who, soon after his wife's death, has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child--a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without her. But it is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled vacationing family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. The seductive mother; the imperious father; the twins--Chloe, fiery and forthright, and Myles, silent and expressionless--in whose mysterious connection Max became profoundly entangled, each of them a part of the "barely bearable raw immediacy" of his childhood memories. Interwoven with this story are Morden's memories of his wife, Anna--of their life together, of her death--and the moments, both significant and mundane, that make up his life now: his relationship with his grown daughter, Claire, desperate to pull him from his grief; and with the other boarders at the house where he is staying, where the past beats inside him "like a second heart." What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, vividly dramatic, beautifully written novel--among the finest we have had from this extraordinary writer.